[Lady Lucky]

And fourth, empower the states. Don’t give the states any, you know, special things to do. Just empower them to do, within the law, what the federal government is not doing. That’s my approach to the whole issue.

Leaving aside for now what he means by "empower" (lovely word!) -- Mr. Cain is running for president. He would like to be the leader of the federal government. Therefore whatever the federal government is not doing now, we may presume he would have it doing that.

Would you say that's a logical assumption?

[butterdezillion]

Lady Lucky, do you think one person as POTUS is going to fix the entire federal government?

Do you trust anybody to be the POTUS if they think that them stepping in for 4-8 years is going to fix the whole federal government permanently?

What importance do you place on there being a system of checks and balances so that no matter how corrupt the current federal leaders or bureaucrats are in how THEY want to enforce (or not enforce) current law, there is somebody with the power to ensure that the laws are actually obeyed?